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Marcus Guillen, the oldest son of Las Vegas shooting victim Rocio Rocha Guillen, has a private moment during the candlelight vigil Thursday, Oct. 5 at Roosevelt High School in Eastvale. (Photo by Terry Pierson, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)

Family members hold Austin Jaksha, six weeks, the youngest child of Las Vegas shooting victim Rocio Rocha Guillen, 40, during a candlelight vigil at Roosevelt High School Thursday in Eastvale on October 5, 2017. (Photo by Terry Pierson, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)

Family and friends mourn the loss of Las Vegas shooting victim Rocio Rocha Guillen, 40, during candlelight vigil at Roosevelt High School Thursday in Eastvale on October 5, 2017. (Photo by Terry Pierson, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)

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Rocio Rocha Guillen, 40, of Eastvale was one of the 58 killed in the Las Vegas shooting her daughter Sofia Jaksha, 1-1/2, right held by her brother Marcus Guillen, 18, as they watch family, friends and the community during a candlelight vigil for their mom at Roosevelt High School Thursday, October 5, 2017. (Photo by Terry Pierson, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)

Family and friends mourn the loss of Las Vegas shooting victim Rocio Rocha Guillen, 40, during candle light vigil at Roosevelt High School Thursday, Oct. 5, in Eastvale. (Photo by Terry Pierson, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)

Jonathan Mulligan, 36, of Chino Hills and wife Elizabeth attended the concert with friends Rocio Rocha Guillen, 40, and fiance, Chris Jaksha as they comfort one another during candle light vigil at Roosevelt High School on Thursday, Oct. 5, in Eastvale. (Photo by Terry Pierson, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)

Juan Carlos Cavazos Jr. of Chino Hills, left speaks about Las Vegas shooting victim Rocio Rocha Guillen, 40, and fiance, Chris Jaksha, who survived the shooting during a candlelight vigil at Roosevelt High School Thursday in Eastvale, CA. October 5, 2017. (Photo by Terry Pierson, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)

Las Vegas shooting victim Rocio Rocha Guillen’s fiance, Chris Jaksha, wipes a tear from his eyes during a candlelight vigil in her memory at Roosevelt High School in Eastvale on October 5, 2017. (Photo by Terry Pierson, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)

More than 400 people showed up to support Las Vegas shooting victim Rocio Rocha Guillen, 40, during a candlelight vigil at Roosevelt High School Thursday, October 5, 2017. (Photo by Terry Pierson, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)

Marcus Guillen, 18, the oldest son of Rocio Guillen, has a private moment during the candlelight vigil at Roosevelt High School on Thursday, October 5, 2017. (Photo by Terry Pierson, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)

More than 400 people showed up to support Las Vegas shooting victim Rocio Rocha Guillen, 40, at a candlelight vigil at Roosevelt High School in Eastvale on Thursday, October 5, 2017. (Photo by Terry Pierson, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)

More than 400 people showed up at a candlelight vigil for a local woman, Rocio Guillen, at Roosevelt High School in Eastvale on October 5, 2017. (Photo by Terry Pierson, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)

Family and friends mourn Las Vegas shooting victim Rocio Rocha Guillen, 40, at a candlelight vigil at Roosevelt High School on October 5, 2017. (TERRY PIERSON,THE PRESS-ENTERPRISE/SCNG)

More than 400 people attended a candlelight vigil at Roosevelt High School in Eastvale on October 5, 2017, for a local woman who died in the Las Vegas shooting. (Photo by Terry Pierson, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)

More than 400 people showed up at the vigil for Las Vegas shooting victim Rocio Rocha Guillen, 40, at Roosevelt High School in Eastvale on Thursday, October 5, 2017. (Photo by Terry Pierson, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)

More than 400 people mourned Las Vegas shooting victim Rocio Rocha Guillen, 40, at a candlelight vigil at Roosevelt High School in Eastvale on Thursday, October 5, 2017. (Photo by Terry Pierson, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)

More than 400 people showed up to pay tribute to Las Vegas shooting victim Rocio Rocha Guillen, 40, at candlelight vigil at Roosevelt High School in Eastvale on Thursday, October 5, 2017. (Photo by Terry Pierson, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)

Rocio Rocha Guillen was remembered Thursday, Oct. 5, by family and friends as an angel who loved her family above all else.

The Eastvale resident and mother of four, who grew up in Anaheim, was mourned at a candlelight vigil Thursday evening at Eleanor Roosevelt High School in Eastvale.

Rocio Guillen and her fiance, Chris. (Photo courtesy of Facebook)

Guillen, 40, died after being shot late Sunday, Oct. 1, in the Las Vegas Route 91 Harvest festival massacre with Chris Jaksha, the man she was about to marry, by her side.

Jaksha used his shirt to tie a tourniquet around her leg after she was shot in the thigh and he carried her to a police officer, who drove them to a hospital. But Guillen died shortly after arriving.

“One thing that’s clear is that Rocio was an angel. And Chris — you’re a hero,” said his friend, Juan Carlos Cavazos Jr. of Chino Hills.

“The angels come and go fast,” Cavazos told hundreds of people standing in front of the high school.

Jonathan Mulligan, 36, of Chino Hills and wife Elizabeth attended the concert with friends Rocio Rocha Guillen, 40, and fiance, Chris Jaksha as they comfort one another during candle light vigil at Roosevelt High School on Thursday, Oct. 5, in Eastvale.<br />(Photo by Terry Pierson, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)

Friends said she loved her children: Marcus, 18; Christopher, 13; Sofia, 18 months; and son Austin, born just six weeks before the tragedy; her fiance; running, music and travel.

Encircled by friends, family and the community, Marcus and Christopher held small white candles as Jaksha stood behind them. People took turns holding Sofia, dressed in pink.

Guillen was an assistant general manager at a California Pizza Kitchen restaurant in Santa Ana. She attended the festival with Jaksha, the father of her two youngest children, and Jaksha’s friend Jonathan Mulligan and his wife, Elizabeth.

The couples, who were close to the stage, dropped to the ground when the shooting started. They ran when the gunfire stopped the first time. Guillen and Jaksha were at the door to a VIP lounge when she was shot in the upper thigh.

“This man never left her side. He never let her go. He carried her to safety. He carried her to her finish line,” Cavazos said.

A 1995 graduate of Katella High School in Anaheim, she is also survived by her parents, Imelda and Luis Rocha.

Family and friends mourn the loss of Las Vegas shooting victim Rocio Rocha Guillen, 40, during candlelight vigil at Roosevelt High School Thursday in Eastvale on October 5, 2017.<br /> (Photo by Terry Pierson, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)

Suzanne Hurt has written about everything from boxcar tramps and crooked politicians to surf kayaking, flash floods and the vanishing Borneo rainforest. She’s worked as a reporter at the legendary wire service City News Bureau of Chicago and daily newspapers, The Register-Guard and The Modesto Bee, after a stint as an editor. As a freelancer, she produced hard news and nature, science, adventure travel and extreme sports content, including multimedia. For The Press-Enterprise and Southern California News Group, Suzanne specializes in narrative storytelling, backed by extensive hard news experience, strict journalism standards and a master’s in literary nonfiction from the University of Oregon’s journalism school. She’s told the story of one person’s survival of the Sept. 11 attack on the World Trade Center, traced a man’s path out of homelessness and recreated the Dec. 2, 2015, terrorist attack in San Bernardino through first responders’ eyes. Also covering GA and the environment, she’s written about avalanche danger, canyoneering, snowshoeing, desert and waterfall hikes, cowboy movers, rescue divers, rabid bats, stealthy burros, the mother orange tree scientists won’t let die and the Jesus pancake.